When West Virginia’s men’s basketball schedule is released, look for the team’s Big 12 road schedule to be more palatable than it was in 2012-13, its first year in the conference, ESPN.com’s Andy Katz reports.

During the Big 12 meetings in Phoenix last week, league commissioner Bob Bowlsby and the conference’s athletic directors were amenable to shortening the Mountaineers’ road trips. Instead of having games on a road trip on a Saturday and a Wednesday, or vice versa, the league may look at having WVU’s trips include Saturday and Monday games, or Saturday and Tuesday games.

Such a setup would give West Virginia the opportunity to stay on the road for multiple games, instead of returning to Morgantown in between. A similar setup exists in the Pac-12, where schools visit both Oregon schools on a given weekend, or both Arizona schools.

The Mountaineers finished 3-6 on the road in Big 12 play last season, and were 6-12 overall. They are the only league team in the Eastern Time zone, while the other nine schools reside in Central Time. Their shortest trip to a road game is over 500 air miles, which is approximately a 90-minute flight.